The  Heathen  Chinee. 


I 


Which  I  wish  to  remark— 

And  my  language  is  plain-  - 
That  for  ways  that  art;  dark. 

And  for  tricks  that  arc  vain, 
The  Heathen  Chinee  in  peculiar, 

Which  the  name  1  would  rise  to  explain. 

AH  SIN  wan  hiss  name  ; 

And  I  si  tail  not  deny 
In  regard  to  the  same, 

What  that,  name  might  imply, 
But  Inn  smile  it  wan  pensive  and  child-like, 

AH  I  frequent  )emarked  to  Bill  Nye. 

It  was  August  the  third, 

And  quite  soft  was  the  skies; 
Which  it  might  be  inferred 

That  AH  Six  was  likewise  ; 
Yet  lie  played  it  that  day  upon  William 

And  me  in  a  way  I  despise. 

Which  we  had  a  small  game, 

And  AH  SIN  took  a  hand  ; 
It  was  euchre.     The  same 

He  did  not  understand  ; 
But  he  smiled  ua  he  sat  by  the  table, 

With  a  smile  (hat  was  child-like  and  bland. 

Yet  the  cards  they  were  stocked 

In  a  way  that  I  grieve, 
And  my  feelings  were  shocked 

At  the  state  of  Nye's  sleeve  ; 
Which  was  stuffed  full  of  aces  and  bowers, 

And  the  same  with  intent  to  deceive. 

Bnt  the  hands  that  were  played 

By  that  Heathen  Chinee, 
And  the  points  that  he  made 

Were  quite  frightful  to  see- 
Till  at  last  he  put  down  a  right  bower, 

Which  the  same  Nye  had  dealt  unto  me. 

Then  I  looked  up  at  Nye, 

And  he  gazed  upon  me  ; 
And  he  rose  with  a  sigh 

And  he  said  -  "Can  this  be  ? 
We  are  ruined  by  Chinese  cheap  labor  ;  " 

And  ho  went  for  that  Heathen  Chinee. 

In  the  scene  that  ensued 

I  dif,  not  take  a  hand, 
But  the  floor  it  was  strewed, 

Like  the  leaves  on  ihe  strand, 
With  the  cards  that  AH  Six  had  been  hiding 

In  the  game  "he  did  not  understand." 

In  his  sleeves  which  were  long, 

He  had  twenty-four  packs — 
Which  was  coming  it  strong  ; 

Yet  I  state  but  the  facts  ; 
And  we  found  on  his  nails,  which  were  taper 

What  is  frequent  in  tapers— that's  wax. 

Which  is  why  I  remark, 

And  my  language  is  plain, 
That  for  ways  that  are  dark, 

And  for  tricks  that  are  vain, 
The  Pleathen  Chinee  is  peculiar 

Which  the  same  I  am  free  to  maintain. 

TABLE  MOUXTAIX,  1870. 


Endicott  &  Co.,  Lithographers,  59  Bcekman  St., 
New  York. 


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